50 Percent of Death from 12 Types of Cancer, the Cause is Smoking

Almost everyone knows that smoking can cause lung cancer. However, did you know that cancer can also cause 11 other types of cancer? . This is the latest discovery, if the cigarette is a cold-blooded killer that is very deadly.

A study published in Jama Internal Medicine in 2015 revealed that 48.5 percent of deaths due to 12 types of cancer could be related to smoking. The 12 types of cancer in question are liver, large intestine, lung, throat, esophagus, larynx, stomach, pancreas, bladder, kidney, cervix and acute myeloblastic leukemia.

Researchers from the American Cancer Society found this after analyzing the health records of 346,000 adults aged 35 years and over who died of all 12 cancers in 2011.

As a result, 168,000 deaths can be attributed to smoking. In proportion, smoking most often causes death from lung cancer (80.2 percent) followed by laryngeal cancer (76.6 percent). However, half the deaths from throat, esophageal and bladder cancers are also caused by smoking. How can it be to the whole body? Maybe your question now is how smoking can cause bladder, kidney and cervical cancer that is far away?

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This question was answered by Drg Rahmi Amtha, MDS. Sp.PM, PhD, chairman of the Indonesian Oral Disease Specialist Association. The answer is hundreds of cigarettes that are carcinogenic or cause cancer. Two ingredients that are known to be carcinogenic are Acetaldehyde and Aromatic amine.

This substance causes cell mutations, from what was previously friendly to the body become uncontrolled and dangerous. When cells turn malignant, tumors that appear if not controlled produce cancer.

Explained by Jack Jacoub, M.D., medical oncologist and medical director at Orange Coast Medical Center explained to SELF, March 15, 2019, cancer cells can then ride on spleen or blood tissue to spread to other parts of the body that were initially not exposed to cigarette smoke. The problem, Rahmi said, is not known which organs are most sensitive to carcinogens. He said, which cells are activated more still no one knows.

All depends on the mechanism of cells that are sensitive to capture the carcinogenic substances. That makes cancer, although one cause (smoking), but the place is different. "For example, more inhalation should be the lungs, but some are affected in other parts. Don't be mistaken. Cigarettes can trigger breast, liver, and other cancers; although logically the most exposed are the lungs, "he said.

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